Archive for December, 2007
What We Will Document
As alkantara director Mark Deputter puts it “It Will Be What We Make It did not only help to investigate the potential of this [new Alkantara] space and to blow life in it, but also to ask questions and create hypotheses around its future (and at the same time about alkantara’s future). […] All seems […]
TV GALLERY
The “TV GALLERY” exhibition opened on Thursday December 06, 2007 in Gallery Nova, Zagreb.
The exhibition “TV Gallery” has been conceived to show material from the Belgrade Television programme “TV Gallery”, which was broadcast on the Yugoslav TV network from 1984 – 1991. The exhibition deals with cultural policy, conditions of art and cultural production, public […]
Beirut, a critical absence of public space
In November I had the privilege of travelling to Beirut during the week of the Homeworks III forum on Cultural Practice 2005 — an international platform of lectures, screenings, exhibitions that engaged both local and international art practitioners, theorists, writers, philosophers among many others. Stemming from both my stay in Beirut and continued research since, […]
Some assumptions about art and storytelling in Beirut
Although there already was an interest of the ECF generally to support an artistic event for stage 2 in the region, there are three main assumptions that lead to the eventual decision to develop the second stage of AlmostReal specifically in Beirut. These came out of the experiences of AlmostReal’s visit to Beirut during the […]
Euro-mediterranean cooperation and ALMOSTREAL
Since late 2005, the ECF has been in dialogue with cultural producers engaged in Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. At this time, the ECF advocacy department began focusing on developing cross-mediterannean cooperation between Euro-mediterranean and countries on the ‘non-Euro’ side of the mediterranean. As many resources, and energies are put into developing new networks between the cultural […]
Press Release: It Will Be What We Make It
It Will Be What we Make It is a creation of a temporary platform in Lisbon enabling artists, theoreticians and programmers to meet and to experiment and discuss, and further develop ways of working. It aims to shift artistic work from product-orientation to a production of a space of heterogeneous meanings, through which perceptions, techniques, […]
It Will Be What We Make It
“It will be what we make it wants to research modes of functioning between individual creativity and collective responsibility, reflect about the tension between artistic creation and the arts market and experiment with programming formats that devolve to the public a taste for the unexpected. It will be what we make it is at the […]